Tag: review
member name: yorgo d.
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December 31, 2007 05:28 PM EST --
It's a tradition among music writers, at the end of the year, to look back and make grand sweeping generalizations about who released the best and worst albums. It's a time of tipsy . . . more
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August 29, 2007 02:12 PM EDT --
Ben Jelen (pronounced yelen) is sweating. He's visibly worked up and his long dark hair hangs in stringy clumps about his face whenever . . . more
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September 28, 2007 12:14 PM EDT --
Beginning her career as a late seventies London punk maven and coming into her own as a gothy new wave rock grrrl, Siouxsie Sioux has been operating under a stigma of cool for a very long time now. She's . . . more
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January 30, 2007 03:19 AM EST --
On the subject of playlists:
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April 12, 2007 11:07 PM EDT --
The Good Shepherd (a review)
Cloaks exist not but to conceal daggers and no one is interesting but in disguise. These are the lessons one might well take from a viewing . . . more
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February 14, 2007 04:55 AM EST --
Nellie Mckay is twenty-two and already two double albums into a very promising carreer. It doesn't matter . . . more
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May 02, 2007 10:10 PM EDT --
How many fairy tales do you read in a years time?
For those who wonder, a fairytale is a literary concoction not bound by any forms of logic, except emotional. Time, common sense and science are generally . . . more
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June 01, 2007 04:32 PM EDT --
"...I can finally be a teenager at age twenty-six."
This line, from the song Tiger off of Paula Cole's breakthrough 1996 album This Fire, feels like an important . . . more
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September 01, 2007 12:42 AM EDT --
With very few exceptions the musical legacy of the twentieth century was that of a radical simplification. Trace the course of both esoteric and popular musics through the nineteen hundreds and you’ll . . . more
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April 07, 2008 12:39 PM EDT --
George Clooney has a great a face, and he KNOWS it. His new film Leatherheads , his third as director, is set in the middle nineteen twenties, a time when the . . . more
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January 18, 2008 04:16 PM EST --
It's a bit misleading for me to post a, "review," of Cloverfield , the new thriller from producer and TV golden boy J.J. Abrams.
You see, I've not seen the whole thing. . . . more
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November 29, 2006 02:46 PM EST --
The music we like depends largely on what we believe music can do. If it is the shot of adrenaline during a workout, or the drowsy background to a night's sleep; your choices alter accordingly. . . . more
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February 21, 2006 11:53 AM EST --
He's like some mythical dust bowl bluesman, a secret legend. He's been around for over a decade, in three bands. He's like a rumor, a ghost who'll disappear for a couple . . . more
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October 06, 2007 01:12 AM EDT --
If any of you take your guitar seriously this is a good place to settle down. John Scofield is one of a generation of three . . . more
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September 21, 2007 01:39 AM EDT --
Culture needs its contrarians, people invested in getting attention so as to provoke. Meshell Ndegeocello has invested herself in making oblique music for a pop market. It's her and her immediate . . . more
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July 23, 2007 12:27 AM EDT --
I repeat, Emergency APB: Gainesville Florida’s own hyper-political rock band Against Me!’s new album, New Wave, is an absolute masterpiece!! Still affected by the band’s . . . more
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June 17, 2006 12:55 AM EDT --
I'd had a bad week leading up to reviewing this album, but what smoother surface to slide into the weekend on than a Def Leppard record?
Yeah! Is a collection . . . more
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December 29, 2005 04:41 PM EST --
The best kind of movies are the ones that allow you to forget you are watching a movie. The weight of narative confidence and technical competence forces you into the story on its own . . . more
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January 19, 2006 12:09 PM EST --
Forrest Gump opperates kind of like a baby boomer, 'best of' clip show, taking us through turbulent times and trying to convince us of some of the lessons it thinks we should've learned . . . more
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February 13, 2006 12:12 PM EST --
How exceedingly adequate this film is! How obviously OK and distinctly un-excellent is all the flash, frippery and fire arms. Shakespeare as burlesque, how could it have come up so plain? Especially . . . more
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